Homeopathic Materia Medica

CANNABIS INDICA

(cann-i)

(Hashish) Inhibits the higher faculties and stimulates the imagination to a remarkable degree without any marked stimulation of the lower or animal instinct. A condition of INTENSE EXALTATION, in which all perceptions and conceptions, all sensations and emotions are exaggerated to the utmost degree. Subconscious or DUAL NATURE STATE. Apparently under the control of the second self, but, the original self, prevents the performance of acts which are under the domination of the second self. Apparently the two natures cannot act independently, one acting as a check,upon the other. (Effects of one Dram doses by Dr. Albert Schneider.) The experimenter feels ever and anon that he is distinct from the subject of the hashish dream and can think rationally. Produces the most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations, EXAGGERATION OF THE DURATION OF TIME AND EXTENT OF SPACE, BEING MOST CHARACTERISTIC. Conception of time, space and place is gone. Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles. Ideas crowd upon each other. Has great soothing influence in many nervous disorders, like epilepsy, mania, dementia, delirium tremens, and irritable reflexes. Exophthalmic goitre. Catalepsy.

Head Feels AS IF TOP OF HEAD WERE OPENING AND SHUTTING AND A3 IF CALVARIUM WERE BEING LIFTED. Shocks through brain. (ALOE; COCA.) Uraemic headache. Throbbing and weight at occiput. Headache with flatulence. INVOLUNTARY SHAKING OF HEAD. Migrain attack preceded by unusual excitement with loquacity.

Eyes Fixed. Letters run together when reading. Clairvoyance. Spectral illusions without terror.

ExtremitiesPAIN ACROSS SHOULDERS AND SPINE; MUST STOOP; CANNOT WALK ERECT. Thrilling through arms and hands, and from knees down. ENTIRE PARALYSIS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES. Pain in soles and calves; sharp pains in knees and ankles; VERY EXHAUSTED AFTER A SHORT WALK.

Sleep Very sleepy, but unable to do so. Obstinate and intractable forms of insomnia. Catalepsy. Dreams of dead bodies; prophetic. Nightmare.